Final Tech Report HD - Flipbook - Page 4
Futurist predictions on the impact of
Technology in Financial Services
As a futurist my vision has sometimes been seen as exciting
and sometimes downright scary for the future of machines and
science to enhance or replace activities and products in the
world of Financial Services. Some would say I am a dreamer
who hopes to innovate better tools for the people working in
Financial Services. Others would say I’m a realist who has
embraced leading edge technology and applied it to
everything that happens at AQMetrics.
GERALDINE GIBSON
CEO AQMETRICS
One of the areas we see regularly at present is the alternative
nature of instruments now traded on Financial Markets.
Historical data availability for these instruments is nonexistent, which in itself poses issues for the risk managers and
traders who are working tirelessly to understand how best to
"With the merging of multiple
concepts from computer
science one can now merge
data analytics, computational
algorithms and
machine learning to produce
results ..."
measure their risk and return profiles. A good example of this is
emissions data. In the EU for example the ETS data viewer
provides easy access to emission trading data contained in the
European Union Transaction Log (EUTL). As time goes on the
availability of this alternative data will provide historical trends
and richer data for analytics purposes, which will in turn lead
to demand for more data visualisation tools around alternative
investment instruments and data in general.
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